"The takers are the people who believe their lives will always be the total of what they can get from the world. They are always thinking get, get, get. They plan and scheme ways to get what they want in money, in love, in happiness, and in all kinds of good... but whatever may be their spiritual ideals or lack of any, no matter what they take, they can never know peace or security or fulfillment. The givers, on the other hand, are convinced life is a giving process. Thus their subtle motivation in all their ways is to give themselves away, in love, in service, and in all the many helpful ways they can invest themselves. They are always secure, for they intuitively know that their good flows from within." - Eric Butterworth -
He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still. Lao Tzu Om Tare Tuttare Ture Svāhā__________________ Sheryl Soft and tender, tough and hard .... Never touched a razor .... I shall love her always!
When my old man would go bush, he would take with him a bucket of fat , a bucket of salt, a frying-pan and a shotgun." -author of Rabbit on a Shovel.
People who force nature force themselves. When we grow only wheat, we become dough. If we seek only money, we become brass; and if we stay in the childhood of team sports, we become a stuffed leather ball. Beware the monoculturist, in religion, health, farm or factory. He is driven mad by boredom, and can create war and try to assert power, because he is in fact powerless. -Bill Mollison from his book Introduction To Permaculture
Current farm policy was called by Time magazine, "a welfare program for the megafarms that use the most fuel, water and pesticides; emit the most greenhouse gases; grow the most fattening crops; hire the most illegals; and depopulate rural America."
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was within me an invincible summer. Albert Camus
"I love you and I forgive you. I am like you and you are like me. I love all people. I love the world. I love creating. ... Everything in our life should be based on love." - Ray Bradbury
Stalin is reported to have said, "It's not how many votes there are that matter, it's how you count them".
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile way and you have their shoes.
"I used to have demons that I wresteled with but I pushed all of the little demons into one big one. He's a bitch to fight with but I allways know where he is," Keith Richards Peace Out, Rev J